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Me thinks that it's only really the Germans who do well out of the Euro. They are one of the larger countries both in size and finance but they are pretty much wholly northern European so will tend to have the same thinking about work and finance across the nation.

France is big but stretches more widely that Germany so while the political classes are up north they do have a med "border too".

So we have northern Germany and political France trying to impose a common financial model on countries with very different outlooks and attitudes. Then they wonder why it doesn't work.

Maybe they should have kept national currencies and financial rules and made the Euro a sort of trade currency so businesses could trade across boundaries with less regulation and better pricing and then set prices to consumers according to local conditions.